This Is Not Miami (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811228053)

Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them--and even empathize--despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

Author: Fernanda Melchor
ISBN-10: 0811228053
ISBN-13: 9780811228053
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.54w x 0.42d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2023